Thread regarding Lumen Technologies layoffs

Yes, 125% of what an involuntary layoff package would be

Did people offered the voluntary get a better package?

AnasInnerMonologue needs to take a sarcasm detection class 🙄

If you don't want to be with the company and have nothing better to do than neg the company you are quite useless to the company compared to someone like dear Kate who will cheerleader us into sweet golden parachute oblivion.

Everything else you said reaffirms my statements.

AnasInnerMonologue says "EOI is permanent reduction of that position. Someone retiring normally can be replaced. Someone tantrum quitting can be replaced. So no, it's not in their best interest to let you all quit and reward you for it if the company needs a warm body in your role. Just the truly useless get to go."

You dead wrong. Most are not useless and provide serious value to the company. Do you read the press releases that have come out since KJ took the helm? It's all been super positive pressers and the company is doing great, according to the pressers. If that's all true then why would you call the employees useless?

KJ is well aware of all the bloat and duplicate positions that were brought into the company from Level3. Centurylink had a tight ship when it came to org chart. In Level3 org chart everyone is a Sr Manager or Sr Director of all the same things which makes no sense. Thirty Sr Directors who all have same title and all have less than ten people under them makes no sense. KJ is cleaning up.

My boss said for those that EOI is getting approved are jobs they don’t plan to have in future of company or not bringing value to the bottom line or ecosystem. I know must hurt peoples ego but if they are giving EOI and then not backfilling your position your role is not bringing much. Lumen is also seeing that it was chaos before layoffs and is still same chaos after layoffs but with less overhead. Few months in very little of the people let go are being missed.

Lol @ AIM name

To the whiners who can't understand their rejection;

EOI is permanent reduction of that position. Someone retiring normally can be replaced. Someone tantrum quitting can be replaced. So no, it's not in their best interest to let you all quit and reward you for it if the company needs a warm body in your role. Just the truly useless get to go.

Yes your manager would rather you quit so they can replace you with someone too new and appreciative they can squeeze a few years of productivity out of. It's like you people think it's about you or something.

The reason I was given was they can’t afford to let me go because they can’t back fill the position. Even though I’m leaving in October. My director has the spine of a jellyfish

What is EOI? I be seen multiple Lumen employees in my group mention they are leaving on Friday . I’m currently a contractor for Lumen and am curious does this mean more positions will open but pay less ?

WOW@ Over the hill, eh? You must've failed your DEI test. The remaining left won't be able to get themselves out of a wet paper bag. Trust me.

If your EOI is approved. You're either low hanging fruit or over the hill.

What a pathetic company. Congrats to all who have escaped the "dark side". You deserve much more and shouldn't be fooled by these fools and their "spin". They are all clueless and their lack of empathy is staggering!

Their management didn't deny them it was HR and I'm sure the SLT. There are people who put in for the EOI that I'm sure wanted out, but there is an involuntary RIF coming, that is for sure. That debt restructuring was a joke, it was to make everyone feel good. Lumen is going down quick. I say look for either a bankruptcy, merger, or takeover of some kind coming soon.

Approved. Max severance. No regrets. Not looking back. Good luck to all of you that are sticking with it. You've got a tough battle ahead to get this company out of the cellar.

The main reason people didn't get approved is that way more people said YES (to the EOI) than they must have needed, or perhaps there was a goal or cap per organization. From what I can tell, many more were ready to leave than was accepted/approved. I was one of the lucky ones who got approved.

Some approved people have to stay longer to transition their jobs to someone else.

Approved thank gawd with no new terms negotiated whatever that previous poster means by that. Glad to be off this sinking ship while kj rearranges the deck chairs. Good luck to all left behind, your gonna need it!

It's not like creating a rocket to go to moon. Some people who would have liked an exit package were denied because they cost too much to boot and they are in a role the company cannot easily replace. The company lied about the EOI because for some people who were accepted there were new terms negotiated for leaving the company and none of that was put in the EOI. Not everyone who was granted the EOI will leave on April 12. Lumen is being su-ked into that drain vortex and it wants to do a revese stock split to get away from being delisted. Employees are told it's all roses and glitz but reality is a 5 year debt deadline that looks dismal. Nothing should be shocking to anyone because this is how a company behaves when it sees itself failing. KJ was installed to manage an exit strategy so do not be upset or shocked to what is happening.

"Were the people who were rejected for the EOI given a reason as to why their management denied it?"

Yeah, like you're too valuable to the company, day to day operations (not as important as the DEI folks & diversity hires who have no experience in the actual field we've worked in).
As an alternate point of view, you're so old, we figured you'd just age-out, or QUIT in frustration, and we'd immediately save the payout, Cobra, unemployment, so why should we give it to you!? Who actually knows why some were accepted, and some were not.

Consider yourself lucky. You get to eat another day. 😉

Were the people who were rejected for the EOI given a reason as to why their management denied it?

??? Need more details